Africa-Press – Angola. Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) will, during 2023, train technicians from the National Basic Infrastructure Construction Company (ENCIB), in the field of railway and road construction, guaranteed yesterday, in Lisbon, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese company, Miguel Cruz.
This official gave this guarantee, during a working meeting with an Angolan delegation from ENCIB, headed by its general director, Laureano Tchoia, and which was attended by the Angolan ambassador to Portugal, Carlos Alberto Fonseca.
According to Miguel Cruz, the company he manages already has extensive experience, not only in the railway field but also in the road sector, stressing that it is a privilege to maintain this cooperation and exchange of experience with ENCIB.
Miguel Cruz also referred that Infraestruturas de Portugal has as its object the design of projects, construction, financing, conservation, operation, requalification, enlargement and modernization of the Portuguese road and rail networks, including, in the latter, the command and control of circulation .
He also added that the company has evolved in recent years with a broader focus on the management of multimodal mobility and on the vast network of infrastructures under its responsibility, with a strong impact on the economic and social development of the country.
In this context, IP is a unique company at national and international level, which reconciles a unique know-how, due to the experience and competence of its staff, with a high openness to innovation, a decisive factor in the current context of permanent evolution of services of mobility.
In turn, the director general of the National Company for the Construction of Basic Infrastructure (ENCIB), Laureano Tchoia, stressed that cooperation with IP will be of great value, given the level of experience it has in the field of infrastructure.
“Angolan technicians will be able to draw knowledge from Portuguese technicians, as well as vice versa, which means that both institutions will win”, he said.
He also informed that the National Company for the Construction of Basic Infrastructures was created on April 7, 1978, supervised by the Provincial Government of Luanda, since 1985, being dimensioned to carry out works of different dimensions, from the smallest to the most complex interventions, aiming to satisfy effectively meet the needs of each client.
The Ambassador of Angola in Portugal, Carlos Alberto Fonseca, considered that this partnership between the two companies will expand cooperation between Angola and Portugal, in the sense of consolidating the development that both countries seek, allowing to carry out not only, at the most different levels of infrastructures, but also through exchanges of experiences in different areas.
Therefore, he encouraged cooperation, noting that Angola has been growing.
“We are going through difficult times, but we have already registered positive growth in our economy, as infrastructures are very important because they are a constant, not only in construction, but also in maintenance”, he said.
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